Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.
Guest Stars:
Ann Beach, Ann Morrish, Moira Redmond, David Ritch, Richard Thorp
Guest Stars:
John Wood, John Harvey, Paul Rogers, Katharine Blake, John Bown
Guest Stars:
Kate Binchy, Jane Merrow, Michael Graham, Ron Moody, Molly Urquhart
Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.
Guest Stars:
Elizabeth Davis, Marie Kean, Kevin McHugh, David Blake Kelly, Maggie Fitzgerald
During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.
Guest Stars:
Anouk Aimée
On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.
Guest Stars:
Cyril Cusack
There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?
Guest Stars:
Peter Sallis, Alison Leggatt, Laurence Hardy, Daphne Slater, David William
Guest Stars:
Peter Vaughan, Tom Criddle, John Southworth, Albert Lieven, Hugh Manning
In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?
Guest Stars:
Peter Vaughan, Alfred Marks, Dudley Foster, Kathleen Michael, Ann Syrett
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
Guest Stars:
Eric Thompson, James Maxwell, Dilys Hamlett, Avril Elgar, Catherine Lacey
Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.
Guest Stars:
John Welsh, Donald Sinden, Ian Richardson, Alec McCowen, Clifford Rose
A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.
Guest Stars:
Lee Grant, André Morell, Fred Sadoff, Earl Cameron, David Cargill
A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.
Guest Stars:
Diane Cilento, Alec Clunes, Ann Bell, Frederick Jaeger, Priscilla Morgan
Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?
Guest Stars:
Judi Dench, Robin Parkinson, Tom Criddle, Michael Hordern, Judy Campbell
Guest Stars:
Topsy Jane, Tony Garnett, Peter Brookes, Barry Jackson, Ronald Cunliffe
An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.
Guest Stars:
John Le Mesurier, Hilary Mason, Gary Hope, Billie Whitelaw, John Fraser
Guest Stars:
Sheila Hancock, Thora Hird, John Sharp, Donald Churchill
Guest Stars:
John Le Mesurier, Marne Maitland, Stephen Murray, Meg Wynn Owen, Desmond Hunter
One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth
Guest Stars:
Aubrey Richards, Roderick Jones, Emrys Leyshon, Denys Graham, Patricia Mort
Guest Stars:
Ann Beach, Mary Ure, Robert Shaw, Alexander Davion
Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.
Guest Stars:
John Wood, Marie Kean, Harold Goldblatt, Kevin McHugh, Patrick McAlinney
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
Guest Stars:
Cyril Cusack, June Tobin, Hilary Mason, Jeannette Roach, Allan McClelland
Guest Stars:
Colette Dunne, Kenneth Griffith, William Squire, Annette Crosbie, Hazel Hughes
Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
Guest Stars:
Peter Sallis, Rosamund Greenwood, Gary Hope, Keith Michell, Sarah Miles
Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.
Guest Stars:
Leonard Rossiter, Jane Merrow, John Bluthal, Kenneth J. Warren, Peter Madden
Guest Stars:
Harold Goldblatt, Patrick McAlinney, Donal Donnelly, Ronald Fraser, Daniel Massey
The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.
Guest Stars:
Michael Graham, John Gatrell, Marne Maitland, Darryl Read, John Southworth
The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?
Guest Stars:
Aubrey Richards, Roderick Jones, Emrys Leyshon, Denys Graham, Patricia Mort
Guest Stars:
Ann Bell, Alan Dobie, Robin Chapman, Wendy Gifford, Ralph Michael
In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.
Guest Stars:
John Welsh, Eric Thompson, Rupert Davies, Peter Butterworth, Mary Chester
An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.
Guest Stars:
Cyril Cusack, Jeannette Roach, Gordon Lang, Margaret Whiting, Joan Miller